Big Bass - Keeping it Reel
By Pragmatic Play
Overview
Dive into the icy waters of Pragmatic Play's Big Bass - Keeping it Reel, a high-volatility slot with a thrilling 10,000x max win potential! This 5-reel, 3-row game boasts 10 paylines of electrifying fishing action. Experience stunning visuals of a frosty fishing landscape and vibrant aquatic symbols, bringing a fresh twist to the popular Big Bass series. Land winning combinations of 10-A royals and premium fish symbols, tackle boxes, dragonflies, reels, and floats on adjacent reels from left to right. The unique gameplay blends classic slot mechanics with innovative bonus features, ensuring an exciting experience for both seasoned players and newcomers. Feel the exhilarating anticipation as you collect fish money symbols during free spins, aiming for that massive 10,000x payout. This game offers a diverse betting range from 10 p/c to $/€250 per spin, appealing to players of all budgets. Get ready to hook the biggest catch of your life!
Gameplay & Features
Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel reserves its special bits for the bonus round. This is triggered naturally when3, 4, or 5 scatter symbolshit to award10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. If2 scattersland in the base game,there is a chance the third is hooked onto the screento trigger free spins. As mentioned, thewild symbolandgolden wild symbolare added to the reels for free spins. Whenfish symbols land, they display acash money value. Iffishland at thesame timeas aregular wild or golden wild symbol, their values arecollected and awarded. If fish symbols land, butno wild lands, their values areadded to a prize netsitting above the grid. On each following spin, arandom fish escapes the pot, subtracting from its value. However, when agolden wild symbolhits, it not onlycollectsthe values of any fish symbols that land at the same time, but whatever value isstored in the prize pot is also awarded. There are also a fewrandom elements. So, when there arefisherman symbolson screen butno fishat theend of a free spin, fish symbols can appear in random positions. Alternatively, if there arefish symbolsbutno fisherman, fisherman symbols canrandomly be added to the board. Wait, there's more. Whenwilds or golden wilds hit, they arecollectedon themultiplier trail. Every4 collectedretriggers10 extra free spins, with amultiplierfor each fish money symbol collection. The multiplier progresses throughx2, x3, and x10. When reaching the final level, the feature cannot be retriggered again.
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Two other ways of playing Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel are with the Ante Bet orbuying free spins. TheAnte Bet increases the bet by 50%, addingextra scatter symbolsto the reels. Or, if possible, players can buy free spins for100x the bet. For both methods, the RTP remains the same at 96. 07%
Final Thoughts
Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have gotten some good mileage out of their Big Bass range of related slots, and the series shows no signs of slowing up. If anything, it's going from strength to strength and Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel has several things going on to reel in fans of the range. For one, the jollity is back with a vengeance - everything just looks and sounds so darn chipper. While this sort of thing won't be to everyone's taste, players who fell forBig Bass Bonanza's charm should be all over the Keeping it Reel one, too.
The new bit, however, isn't completely new. Previous Pragmatic Play slots likeTreasure WildandBlack Bullused a similar system where money symbols add their values to a prize pot which then gets awarded whenever wild symbols land. In Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel, for some reason, money leaps out of the prize net. Okay, it suits a fish leaping off a boat and back into the water concept, but it is kind of frustrating watching the prize pool evaporate before your very eyes. Is this what the game title alludes to in regards to keeping it real? Escaping fish don't exactly hurt Big Bass Bonanza Keeping it Reel's max winning capabilities, though, as it tops out at10,000x the bet. That trumpsBig Bass Bonanza Megaways,Big Bass Splash, orBigger Bass Bonanza, all of them really, by a wide margin.
Ah, well, chalk up another playable entry in the Big Bass range of slots. It's hardly a fishing slot paradigm shift and doesn't do much that isn't available before or elsewhere. However, the bigger winning potential plus newish bits keep the series afloat and should be significant enough to attract fans back for another whirl.
